US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for obtaining color imagery using single photon avalanche diodes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,865, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for obtaining color imagery using single photon avalanche diodes" was invented by Raymond Kirk Price (Carnation, Wash.), Michael Bleyer (Seattle) and Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for obtaining color imagery using SPADs includes a SPAD array that has a plurality of SPAD pixels. Each of the plurality of SPAD pixels includes a respective color filter positioned thereover. The system is configurable to capture an image frame using the SPAD array and generate a filtered ...